Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!!! (I’m only putting Missouri as “blue” because I want them to hold their bellwether status…)
Update (11/6/08): While it looks like MO will go for McCain (grrrr…) and NC will go for Obama (yay!), that means it’ll end up something like 364 – 174…which means…I was damned close… 😛
I swear, I’m finding more amusing YouTube videos than anything else to post up here, but it’s very difficult to resist! If you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, you probably won’t find it all that amusing…but if you do…you will… 🙂
One of these things is not like the other… And it amuses me greatly… 🙂 Hint: One difference is “3,000” and the other is “90,000+”…
This was on last night’s Daily Show… One of the commentators, Wyatt Cenac, shows clips from the debate with some old people and gets their comments… Cenac doesn’t have much to say, as the old people are plenty willing to give their opinions.
But yeah, either way, some striking insights!
Slate.com has predicted the next 10 “Hail Mary” campaign stunts to follow suspension of his campaign:
1. Returns to Vietnam and jails himself.
2. Offers the post of “vice vice president” to Warren Buffett.
3. Challenges Obama to suspend campaign so they both can go and personally drill for oil offshore.
4. Learns to use computer.
5. Does bombing run over Taliban-controlled tribal areas of Pakistan.
6. Offers to forgo salary, sell one house.
7. Sex-change operation.
8. Suspends campaign until Nov. 4, offers to start being president right now.
9. Sells Alaska to Russia for $700 billion.
10. Pledges to serve only one term. OK, half a term.
Obama has made the point a few times, but it tends to fly over the heads of many that consider themselves to be “pro-life”… Obama has consistently said that he wants to limit the need for abortion by providing good health care and education to the masses, which tends to be the prevailing strategy of Western Europe (most of which has a lower abortion rate than the U.S.). Regardless, Sister Mary Jude Jun made an editorial comment in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch that gets this point across very well. Keep in mind that she makes no mention of who she’ll vote for in November, but she still makes the point effectively.
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Web of life
The view of pro-life is distorted when only the birth of children is considered instead of the entire web of life. Abortion is not the underlying problem. Poverty and other difficult situations lead women to this extreme way out. What can be done to make abortions fewer and the entire web of life more respected?
If, with billions to spend on space research, we rejoice to find water on Mars, do we have funds for the untold numbers of children dying each day for lack of clean water on this planet?
New mothers often work several jobs to survive. They need child care when they are at work, healthy food for their children and insurance for sickness. Are we pro-life when we forget about mothers and their babies after they are born?
Countless women die in childbirth because they lack prenatal care; sometimes, the babies die, too. Can we be pro-life and not be concerned?
Jails are a multi-billion dollar business; we fill them with our youth. Could we use those funds to give them the help they need before the cycle of violence begins on our streets and in our schools?
Life is precious from the womb to the tomb; in identifying only one part as important while neglecting the entire web of life issues, we lose our values as citizens and the respect of others.
Sister Mary Jude Jun | St. Louis
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Point is: people should realize that there is a clear distinction between “pro-life” and “pro-birth,” and this distinction is frequently lost in the nuance of political campaigning and speeches.
If you’re truly pro-life, you need to look at all the policies being put forward instead of looking for “ban abortion” in a political platform, and then writing off everything else that individual or party stands for.
All the shenanigans around Sarah Palin’s nomination just baffles my mind. There’s a huge double-standard out there coming from the right-wing…check out the following video to see some evidence…
It’s stunning…
(Yeah…”The Daily Show” is getting another Peabody…guaranteed…)
Update: Here’s a nice run-down of some “fact checks” from all the lies from Palin’s speech last night, too… And if you want a less liberally-leaning list of facts that were distorted from the GOP convention, here’s a list from the Associated Press…
Update #2: As was pointed out on another blog today (in a comment…so I can’t cite it…): Jesus was a Community Organizer, and Pontius Pilate was a governor! 😛
“She’s got to. She’s a Democrat. She must prove she loves America, as opposed to Republicans, who everyone knows loves America: they just hate half the people living in it.”
— Jon Stewart; “The Daily Show,” August 26, 2008
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Firstly, that whole episode of “The Daily Show” last night was pure genius. They are in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, providing their characteristic “coverage” of the speeches and news surrounding the event. This is the kind of thing the writers/producers of the show win a Peabody, and surely this election cycle will be no different.
Secondly, I have been watching some of the speeches, but at the very least, the “big name” speech of each night, including Michelle Obama (as described in the video above) and Hillary Clinton.
Michelle Obama is a badass and I’d love to see her in a debate with Cindy McCain, ’cause it’d be brutal and sad. I like that she doesn’t take any crap from people, and that she has a mind of her own. Watching Laura Bush speak…very occasionally (what…she talks?)…is very uninspiring, and mostly boring. Michelle wrote her own speech (according to Rep. Harold Ford) and delivered it as well as her husband would have. Beautiful, inspiring words…and yes, she’s patriotic…
Hillary Clinton spoke last night and, while I wasn’t quite as “inspired” as I was by Michelle Obama’s, it was still an excellent speech that held the tone of party unity admirably. From the outset, she expressed her support for Obama and the party as a whole, discussed her accomplishments in the campaign, and even stuck it to McCain as, perhaps, only she could. I’m glad she’s putting this “divided party” thing to bed, thankfully not providing a spectacle for the pundits to tear apart and report on for 25 hours a day (not a typo). Either way, it sounds like most people were very impressed by her words and that she’s a team player, which will probably just make her more powerful within the party than she ever would have been as President.
Only a few months left!
Yeah…Paris Hilton isn’t exactly the smartest person around, and is quite frankly kinda annoying, but I applaud her for sticking it to McCain for using her in his campaign ad against Obama. Even though her parents had donated to the McCain campaign.
I get the feeling I’m going to get tired of the election(s) in the next few months…
Yeah…Paris Hilton isn’t exactly the smartest person around, and is quite frankly kinda annoying, but I applaud her for sticking it to McCain for using her in his campaign ad against Obama. Even though her parents had donated to the McCain campaign.
I get the feeling I’m going to get tired of the election(s) in the next few months…
